how much money does it take to buy off a scientist?

Question

According to environmentalists the evidence for man made global warming is so great that the only people who appose it are in the pockets of big oil. For arguments sake lets accept the fact that these people are being paid by oil companies. But to believe the above statement is to believe that thousands of scientists do not care about humanity, the lives of their children, grandchildren, and in many ways would be an acompliss to mass murder of hundreds of millions and according to some billions of lives by purposely misleading the public and not taking actions to correct the problem. But yet can still go to sleep without a guilty conscious. So how much money are they receiving?

So Trevor are you saying that for 10 000 dollars these people are willing to commit mass murder?

Eric. Please read my statement before you make comments. I agree with you. You should not call people crooks and liars because they disagree with you. I am campaigning against left wingers who are trying to assassinate a scientists character because they do not believe in the theory of man made global warming. Lets stick to the science.

Teacher, I respect the work you father had done, he was/is a brave man. But it is the scientists who appose to the theory of global warming who are being attacked.

Answer 1

First off, who is speaking out against global warming? Even big oil has begun to take a step back due to public pressure.

I don't think you understand science very well. A scientist isn't going to have an opinion about global warming, he is going to conduct research and make a conclusion based on his findings. No scientist is going to accept money to present a bogus statement, especially not about something this big, he would likely lose his job and ruin his professional reputation.

An oil company, just the same as an ex-presidential candidate, will fund research for a specific topic. Depending on their agenda, they may or may not be happy with the findings, and they may or may not decided to use the information. The oil company will not use the info that proves global warming, and the politician will not use the info that disproves it. Whats unscientific about the whole process is that tons of scientists are being funed by people who want to prove global warming, and very few by people who want to disprove it.

Answer 2

For your arguments sake, there would have to be thousands of scientists willing to prostitute themselves for the fossil fuel industries. A couple, yes. Thousands, no. There are a lot of technical types who work for the fossil fuel industries who understand what is going on and don't particularly like their industry hiring shills. That does not preclude them from helping to produce a useful commodity as efficiently as possibly while hoping for legislation that will reduce its use. People who pour TNT into shell casings don't neccessarily like pro-war policies, either.
Most climate scientists, of course, don't work for the fossil fuel industries any more than most chemical engineers work in oceanography.

Answer 3

Environmentalists get paid by their followers
They don't have to be right, they just have to be vocal
The more they get in the news, (paper or TV) the more money they attract to their cause, The money pays first their big salary, then their expenses, then the rest of their endevour.
The more sensational they push their agenda, the more income for them. Even Susuki seems to rely on Junk Science and Extreme retoric to get his point across

Answer 4

You've been listening to demagogues again.

Just because someone disagrees with you does not make them a liar or a crook.

They may be mistaken.

The data is NOT 100% conclusive that we are the cause of global warming. I think we are, but others are free to disagree.

But character assassination and demonizing the opposition is not going to help.

Show some class.

Answer 5

I have a PHd in paleo envirenment, climatological meteorology, globalwarmicology, AND Republicanophobia.

I was offered $304803490394988t59049rjg'jvbi94854039upeijgtg[ir[w94e85=q0395uitjrogjj[wa? PER Week to debunk global warming.

I didn't accept it because Al Gore offered me twiced as much.

Answer 6

I wonder who pays the environmentalists who say global warming is caused by man? Are they being bought off, too? I'll bet they're not working for free.

Answer 7

The going rate being offered by ExxonMobil to any scientist who will refute global warming is $10,000 plus expenses.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/02/news/companies/exxon_science/index.htm
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004397,00.html

Answer 8

In 1960 my father, a doctor in preventative medicine, was the very 1st doctor in the world to say, on TELEVISION, that smoking was bad for your health.
On T.V. the cigarette people were really nice BUT
Our family was followed. We knew this because
- we saw them in cars out-side our house.
-they sent us letters trying to persuade Dad to stop and then mentioning personal deatils such as your wife is friends with a man who smokes.
They even came to my school at lunch-times, they would ask girls if they knew me and if I smoked.
They asked teachers what my grades were like and would try to check if I smoked. The head-mistress threw them out of the school and phoned Dad.
One foggy night a man followed me home and stopped me and tried to make me smoke a cigarette, as a 15yr old girl I was terrified
Poor Dad tried but he LOVED me too much and while not denying what he said, about smoking, he did not campaign as much.

It was not, is not easy for experts to speak out against some-thing that affects big business.
It's not always money.
So some scientists think of their families and give in and say there is no global warming.

In approx 1960 he and 5 other doctors began carrying out a new law called 'The Clean Air Health Act' Under this factory owners were FINED big money if the smoke coming out of their factory chimneys was darker than mid grey.
This happened in the North of England.

As a teenager, on Sundays, when the inspectors were at home, my Dad, who was the inspector's boss, would ask me to check the colour of the smoke coming out of factory chimneys. It was usually very dark grey or BLACK. That colour can NOT have boded well for the air.
{Nice for me - usually my observations led to telephone calls that led to BIG fines for factory owners under the new, first in the world 'Clean Air Act'. -
Slowly my Dad taught factory owners they could make money by re-using the chemicals coming out of the chimneys}

Some of the doctors, the one in Bradford, did not carry out the fining, later he got a medal from the Queen.

One doctor in Manchester was very careful and did a lot of fining. Some-how some-thing went wrong with his pension.

My Dad, ever a lateral thinker, took the factory owners on an expensive picnic to the country where cute fush swam in un-polluted waters. Then he showed them the dead fish near their factories.THhen he gave them reports that showed they could MAKE MONEy by using the chemicals in the smoke.
It was difficult work for Dad. There are few men as clever as he was.
Oh dear, I can not prove this, my father burnt the letters in anger one day.
I hope the cigarette manafacturers do not read this, I'm old and easy to dispose of

Answer 9

$37.74 per hour is the going rate. I advise paying small bonuses and tipping for really good performances.

What a stupid question/statement.

Answer 10

ask the fda and the drug companies.